HD Apeiron/42: a revolutionary contact-free art scanner delivering unmatched lifelike results. With flexible LEDs preserving scan quality, it’s perfect for digitizing fine art and delicate artefacts.
Unparalleled technology ensures accurate media digitization with the market’s most realistic image quality, adjustable light control, and detail emphasis.
Equipped with six Fujifilm lens cameras and quad-linear Toshiba colour CCDs, it captures intricate details at 1200 dpi optical resolution. Cutting-edge LEDs with TRI-RTM technology replicate natural daylight, ensuring uniform colours without distance fading. Effortlessly generating lifelike 3D surface sensations, the HD Apeiron/42 offers museum-correct light, conserving art with no UV/IR radiation.
Contact-free scanner delivers the market’s most lifelike results
HD Apeiron/42 is a flexible scanner with natural daylight LEDs that do not compromise on colour accuracy, scan quality and reliability.
Applications
Perfect for: Fine art, artwork, posters, and prints. PCB inspection and print inspection. Apparel, fabrics, and interior design materials. Delicate documents and much more.
Accurate colour reproduction
Our contact-free large format scanner HD Apeiron/42 uses unparalleled technology to accurately digitize media. With the market’s most realistic image quality, full light control and a unique ability to emphasize details, the scanner is ideal for fine art, fragile originals, fabrics, and more.
This is especially suited for museums, copy shops, material and apparel manufacturers, and others, who now have a powerful new way to boost the quality of detailed and delicate originals with unprecedented colour accuracy.
The complete package
The clearance height of 10 inches (254 mm) and an optimal focus plane of up to 5.1 inches (130 mm) enables scanning of thicker media, such as framed artwork.
Six premium cameras lenses and quad-linear Toshiba colour CCDs capture all details in up to 1200 dpi optical resolution.
The lamps in HD Apeiron/42 recreate the natural daylight spectrum using cutting-edge LEDs with TRI-R™ technology. This, plus the clever design of LED strips mounted in elliptical reflectors, results in correct and uniform colours – and no distance fading.
Creating expressive shadows and highlights to add lifelike 3D surface sensations is also easy. HD Apeiron/42 offers four different lamp positions. The museum-correct light emits no UV/IR radiation.
HD Apeiron/42 is the fastest contact-free large format scanner on the market. A flexible solution; it improves workflows while ensuring superior quality. The hardware is designed to support correct ergonomics for the operator; this includes an adjustable arm with a large 22” touchscreen.
You can create unique closed loop calibration (CLC) media profiles for every printer, paper, and quality combination that you need.
Included, intuitive software
A customized and easy-to-operate version of our Nextimage award-winning software, Nextimage Apeiron, is included. All required parameters are readily accessible on the touchscreen rather than hidden behind tabs or dropdown menus. A variety of post-scanning options also allows the user to adjust parameters and effects, if desired.
HD Apeiron/42 is a flexible product that improves existing workflows when digitizing originals.
HD Apeiron/42’s contact-free scanning process with full light control and no UV/IR radiation makes it the first choice when your job is to safely scan large format fine art, delicate documents, and artwork without the risk of wear and tear. Or when you need to emphasize the unique surface details online or in print of, for example, interior design materials, and fabrics and apparel.
CCD
Contex uses All-Digital cameras with advanced point-of-origin capture and onboard digital conversion ensuring minimum noise and an extended dynamic range. The unique four-linear CCD technology, with a special panchromatic line, ensures that no colours are lost when scanning monochrome. Quality colormatched LED lighting ensures the market’s highest standards for colour correctness.
ICC profiles powered by X-Rite
Using X-Rite generated profiles ensures the highest possible colour accuracy for demanding customers. X-Rite is the global leader in colour science and technology.
Table conveyance system
The table of HD Apeiron/42 is moved by a precision timing belt transmission. Together with precise and extremely wear resistant support rollers on each side of the table, this forms our stable triple-point direction control system – a Contex technology.
HD Apeiron/42 lamp and light technologies
Dual LED strips mounted in elliptical reflectors result in correct and uniform colours – and no distance fading. The museum-correct light with no UV/IR radiation uniformly illuminates in all three dimensions, while the scan module shields off ambient light.
We use LEDs with TRI-R technology. The combination of cutting-edge LED technology and phosphor (patented technology) recreates the natural light spectrum.
Multiple exposures per scan line
Contex scanners have the option to digitize each scan line multiple times which will reduce image noise even further. Scanning with minimum 4 exposures per scan line ensures FADGI compliance.
Adobe RGB, Device RGB and sRGB
Contex CCD scanners have several different options for colour space. In addition to the common sRGB our large format scanners also offers colour spaces with a wider gamut as preferred by colour specialists. Adobe RGB and Device RGB has a larger colour gamut than sRGB. This allows differences in very bright and saturated colours to be maintained in your digital file.
Gigabit Ethernet xDTR2.5
Optimized for up to 100 MB per second. Up to 60% faster transfer rate than with xDTR2 thanks to new improved electronics.
USB 3.0 SuperSpeed xDTR3
We have adapted our xDTR technology to work with the USB 3.0 SuperSpeed protocol increasing its performance dramatically. It has the fastest data transfer rate of any scanner on the market.
Gbit throttling buffer control
1GB buffer eliminates scanner pausing. Maintain your scan speeds and meet those deadlines
ALE
Accuracy Lens Enhancement (ALE) technology that electronically maintains 0.1% +- pixel precision across any two points of the scan line thus exceeding even the most rigid requirements in the industry today. Contex delivers a very high grade of precision stability in the scanned image.
AccuColor
To get the best results, your scanner and software should work with full 48-bit data. Where other scanners ignore some of this data, newer Contex scanners work with true 48-bit colour capture.
Compatibility
HD Apeiron/42: a revolutionary contact-free art scanner delivering unmatched lifelike results. With flexible LEDs preserving scan quality, it’s perfect for digitizing fine art and delicate artefacts.
Unparalleled technology ensures accurate media digitization with the market’s most realistic image quality, adjustable light control, and detail emphasis.
Equipped with six Fujifilm lens cameras and quad-linear Toshiba colour CCDs, it captures intricate details at 1200 dpi optical resolution. Cutting-edge LEDs with TRI-RTM technology replicate natural daylight, ensuring uniform colours without distance fading. Effortlessly generating lifelike 3D surface sensations, the HD Apeiron/42 offers museum-correct light, conserving art with no UV/IR radiation.
Contact-free scanner delivers the market’s most lifelike results
HD Apeiron/42 is a flexible scanner with natural daylight LEDs that do not compromise on colour accuracy, scan quality and reliability.
Applications
Perfect for: Fine art, artwork, posters, and prints. PCB inspection and print inspection. Apparel, fabrics, and interior design materials. Delicate documents and much more.
Accurate colour reproduction
Our contact-free large format scanner HD Apeiron/42 uses unparalleled technology to accurately digitize media. With the market’s most realistic image quality, full light control and a unique ability to emphasize details, the scanner is ideal for fine art, fragile originals, fabrics, and more.
This is especially suited for museums, copy shops, material and apparel manufacturers, and others, who now have a powerful new way to boost the quality of detailed and delicate originals with unprecedented colour accuracy.
The complete package
The clearance height of 10 inches (254 mm) and an optimal focus plane of up to 5.1 inches (130 mm) enables scanning of thicker media, such as framed artwork.
Six premium cameras lenses and quad-linear Toshiba colour CCDs capture all details in up to 1200 dpi optical resolution.
The lamps in HD Apeiron/42 recreate the natural daylight spectrum using cutting-edge LEDs with TRI-R™ technology. This, plus the clever design of LED strips mounted in elliptical reflectors, results in correct and uniform colours – and no distance fading.
Creating expressive shadows and highlights to add lifelike 3D surface sensations is also easy. HD Apeiron/42 offers four different lamp positions. The museum-correct light emits no UV/IR radiation.
HD Apeiron/42 is the fastest contact-free large format scanner on the market. A flexible solution; it improves workflows while ensuring superior quality. The hardware is designed to support correct ergonomics for the operator; this includes an adjustable arm with a large 22” touchscreen.
You can create unique closed loop calibration (CLC) media profiles for every printer, paper, and quality combination that you need.
Included, intuitive software
A customized and easy-to-operate version of our Nextimage award-winning software, Nextimage Apeiron, is included. All required parameters are readily accessible on the touchscreen rather than hidden behind tabs or dropdown menus. A variety of post-scanning options also allows the user to adjust parameters and effects, if desired.
HD Apeiron/42 is a flexible product that improves existing workflows when digitizing originals.
HD Apeiron/42’s contact-free scanning process with full light control and no UV/IR radiation makes it the first choice when your job is to safely scan large format fine art, delicate documents, and artwork without the risk of wear and tear. Or when you need to emphasize the unique surface details online or in print of, for example, interior design materials, and fabrics and apparel.
CCD
Contex uses All-Digital cameras with advanced point-of-origin capture and onboard digital conversion ensuring minimum noise and an extended dynamic range. The unique four-linear CCD technology, with a special panchromatic line, ensures that no colours are lost when scanning monochrome. Quality colormatched LED lighting ensures the market’s highest standards for colour correctness.
ICC profiles powered by X-Rite
Using X-Rite generated profiles ensures the highest possible colour accuracy for demanding customers. X-Rite is the global leader in colour science and technology.
Table conveyance system
The table of HD Apeiron/42 is moved by a precision timing belt transmission. Together with precise and extremely wear resistant support rollers on each side of the table, this forms our stable triple-point direction control system – a Contex technology.
HD Apeiron/42 lamp and light technologies
Dual LED strips mounted in elliptical reflectors result in correct and uniform colours – and no distance fading. The museum-correct light with no UV/IR radiation uniformly illuminates in all three dimensions, while the scan module shields off ambient light.
We use LEDs with TRI-R technology. The combination of cutting-edge LED technology and phosphor (patented technology) recreates the natural light spectrum.
Multiple exposures per scan line
Contex scanners have the option to digitize each scan line multiple times which will reduce image noise even further. Scanning with minimum 4 exposures per scan line ensures FADGI compliance.
Adobe RGB, Device RGB and sRGB
Contex CCD scanners have several different options for colour space. In addition to the common sRGB our large format scanners also offers colour spaces with a wider gamut as preferred by colour specialists. Adobe RGB and Device RGB has a larger colour gamut than sRGB. This allows differences in very bright and saturated colours to be maintained in your digital file.
Gigabit Ethernet xDTR2.5
Optimized for up to 100 MB per second. Up to 60% faster transfer rate than with xDTR2 thanks to new improved electronics.
USB 3.0 SuperSpeed xDTR3
We have adapted our xDTR technology to work with the USB 3.0 SuperSpeed protocol increasing its performance dramatically. It has the fastest data transfer rate of any scanner on the market.
Gbit throttling buffer control
1GB buffer eliminates scanner pausing. Maintain your scan speeds and meet those deadlines
ALE
Accuracy Lens Enhancement (ALE) technology that electronically maintains 0.1% +- pixel precision across any two points of the scan line thus exceeding even the most rigid requirements in the industry today. Contex delivers a very high grade of precision stability in the scanned image.
AccuColor
To get the best results, your scanner and software should work with full 48-bit data. Where other scanners ignore some of this data, newer Contex scanners work with true 48-bit colour capture.
Compatibility
Scan your priceless originals without the face of the media touching the scanner.
FADGI **** and ISO 19264-1 compliant.
Colour rendering index (CRI) level >98.
No IR/UV radiation.
Scans up to 42x60 in and 5.1 in height in up to 1200 dpi optical resolution.